On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:03:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> But only when someone compiles on MinGW, no? > > > > Yeah. I think a more clear way to phrase the question would be: is there > > some trick we can use to booby-trap strcasecmp as a function pointer so > > that it fails to compile even on systems where it would otherwise work? > > That line of thought nudges us toward the place Linus explicitly > said he didn't want to see us going, no? We do not particularly > want to care the exact nature of the breakage on MinGW. Do we > really want to set a booby-trap that intimately knows about how > their strcasecmp is broken, and possibly cover breakages of the same > kind but with other functions? Exactly. You snipped my second paragraph, but the gist of it was "...and no, we do not want to go there". Calling it a booby-trap was meant to be derogatory. :) -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html